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Large macroporous networks of silicalite-1 nanocrystallites have been produced from the in-situ hydrolysis of tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) in the presence of concentrated solutions of both molecular (tetrapropylammonium) and polymeric (monodispersed polystyrene beads, ∼400 nm) templating agents followed by hydrothermal and calcination treatments. The morphology of these solids has been characterized using SEM, HREM, XRD, 29Si MAS-NMR, nitrogen adsorption–desorption and mercury intrusion techniques. It consists in a somewhat regular array of nanocrystals (∼100 nm) of silicalite-1 (pore size is ca. 6 nm) organized around interconnected macropores of narrow size distribution (330 ± 30 nm). As silicalite-1 crystals are grown into macropores’ walls, a secondary network of mesoscopic voids is formed between the crystallites (25 ± 15 nm). Two out of these three levels of porosity are narrow distributed.
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Vaudreuil, S., Echchahed, B., Reinert, P. et al. In-situ preparation of macroporous network of silicalite-1 nanocrystallites. J Porous Mater 14, 173–180 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10934-006-9022-1
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